Edwin Newman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
-- Edwin Newman

#Ideas #Lost #Values
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.
-- Edwin Newman

#People #Sides #Scientist
In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.
-- Edwin Newman

#White #Sight #Political
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
-- Edwin Newman

#America #Language #Mature
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
-- Edwin Newman

#Doe #Speak #Results
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
-- Edwin Newman

#President #Vices #Triumph
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
-- Edwin Newman

#Simple #Departed #Speech
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
-- Edwin Newman

#Communication #People #Worry
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
-- Edwin Newman

#Mean #Talking #Mind
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
-- Edwin Newman

#Rivers #America
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
-- Edwin Newman

#Television #World #Bigs
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
-- Edwin Newman

#Teacher #Children #Government
Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
-- Edwin Newman

#Sound #Television #Accents

You may also like:

Ann Curry
Television Personality
Brian Williams
Editor
Chet Huntley
Newscaster
Chuck Todd
Journalist
Dan Rather
Journalist
David Brinkley
Journalist
Edward R. Murrow
Journalist
Harry Reasoner
Journalist
Howard K. Smith
Journalist
Hugh Downs
Game Show Host
John Chancellor
Journalist
Kate Snow
Journalist
Michael Ghiselin
Evolutionary Biologist
Peter Jennings
Journalist
Richard Engel
Journalist
Roger Mudd
Journalist
Sam Donaldson
Journalist
Ted Koppel
Broadcaster
Tom Brokaw
Journalist
Walter Cronkite
Journalist